Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-27

Yorker who goes about off his guard is
sure to suffer as Judge Noah Davis did
the other day when he met bunco
mans eye. II man lets his eyes fall
on boy who tutors peculiar street
cry he is apt 10 have from two to six
newsboys leap for him like so many
human catapulis. AS ho steps from q
hotel, theatre. depot, or club, If be
allows his eyes TO wander an instant,
he will be at onco surrounded and
hemmod IN by cabmen, each seeking his
custom even by violence. IL he turns
his head 20 look at the mendicant who
addresses him I've may not be able to
got rid Of the fellow for block. Rest
ing the eye for an instant on a group Of
vcll-drosscd men, (who may be inte-
rested in ga quiet game, y or on
shabby crowd, (who may be sergeant
OF gang OF outlaws or on a boiste-
rOus drunkard, or voluble crank, may
prove TO have very annoying results.
was talking the other day 10 lady
whose receptions are very popular, and
| remarked that people commented
very curiously on the difference be-
tween her manner indoors and her car
riage on the street. Indoors she was
al aflability and unconscious case, and
out Of doors she was a personifed
poker.
" It's al put on out of DOORS" said
she; "it goes on with my bonnet aud
wrap. / was in endless trouble aslong
as / yielded TO my inclination to be
natural and careless. Some adventures
that ] had were quite alarming, can
tell you. But now | am on my guard
as long as ! am out Of doors.
She had achieved the mastery OF her
eyes. She had gotten the knack Of
seeing everything half block away
and nothing any ncarcr-unless she
chose. He who triumpheth over his
own optics is great enough to inhabit
this city, saith the prophet The most
skiliul New Workers have two ways of
looking they see everything in private
and at the same time make up their
minds what to look at publicly.
LITIGATION OVER WILLS.
The contest over Samuel j. Tilden's
will is growing interesting. II was fore
shadowcd in these letters two months
before any legal documents were filed.
The New York newspapers remained
silent The executors named in the
will are John Bigelow, ex-United States
Minister TO France, Andrew II. Green,
the comptroller of the city, and George
W Smith, Mr. Tildens private secre-
tary. BY its terms the bulk of his for
tune, amounting TO S5,000,000, was
| given TO the executors, III trust, for q
public library or any other pur-
pose "useful to mankind" They
were to receive $1,000 year. each
for their services as executors. The
indefiniteness OF the boquest, under
well-scttlod decisions of the Court of
Appeals, opened the doors to Mr.. Til
| dCn's natural heirs, and one of them has
| taken the offensive. The executors con
cCdc that the devise is valid only for
public library. If the library scheme
doesn't 60 through the whole bequest
for purposes "useful to mankind" fails.
The will instructed the executors, as a
| tIst step. to obtain from the Legisla-
turc an act creating a corporation to be
called "The 1ilden Trust. " Under this
act the executors are to name the first
trustees Of tine corporation, who are to
organize. receive the money, and devote
it 10 the library. The act of incorpora-
tiCn is now before the Legislature. In
tins act MIR. Green, John Bigelow,
and George w. Smith are made
permanent trustees of the fund, with
power to add two more to the
board. These five trustees are to APP
point n president, vice-president, secre-
tary, and treasurer, who are TO hold
Office subject to the will of the board,
and who are to receive such cOmpensa-
ton as the bylaws prescribe. Mr..
Andrew H. Green is now very busy
in trying to array public opinion against
the majority of the Assembly for pre-.
Stunning to add to his act of incOr-
poration an amendment saving the
rights of the Tilden family The act,
confessedly drawn by Mr.. Green's law
yers, it will be seen, makes Mr.. Green
and his coeXecutors trustees for life,
and ia effect authorizes them TO fix their
own salaries This is much more than
Mr.. Tilden did in his will. This point,
however, the Assembly conceded, BUTT
insisted upon a rider providing that
nothing in the act should affect the
rights of any parties to any action now
pending, or of any of the heirs t-law
of Mr.. Tilden. Mr. Green fought
strcnuously but unsuccessfully to have
| this rider stricken out. The Times re-
ports him as threatening that if it is re-
| tanned the executors will not accept the
act, and Will do nothing beyond draw
ing 5000 year from Mr.. Iilden's
fortune toward carrying out Mr.. I'll
| denis wishes until an act is passed to
suit him. 1t is the opinion of good
| LAWYERS like Noah Davis and George
| Hiss that the rider is of no value
either way, and neither helps the
| heirs nor hurts the executors, but
| Mr.. Green seems 10 be on the ram
page about it, and is apparently backed
up by the newspapers. 1t begins to
look as though the people would he the
sufferers and the lawyers the gamers
| Between Mr.. Green's ObStinacy and the
| inherent weakness of his will, the whole
| of Mr.. IiiGen's money may go to ms
nephews and nioces and their lawyers.
" hat comment on the legal ability OF
the Sage of Greystone, who has drawn
his will so loosely that his own ilk is
fattening on what he left behind him.
A. Il. Stewmt's viii stands the test
no better. IT is threatened seriously
by reason of its indefiniteness, and yet
one Of the shrewdest of lawyers drew IT..
Fortunately, he will be the only sui
ferer if the will is upset.
THE HOSPITAL FOUNDER.
4 few nights ago two rough-loohng
men were seated at table in south
Fifth-avenue saloon putting their short
! stemmed pipes and slowly slipping
Italian schooners of beer.
"What has become Of Harry ? sald
one. 81 have not seen him since he
was took sick.
"What has become of him ?" an.
swered the other; "why, he's turned
hospital rounder. "
In the conversation which ensued
the meaning of the term was clearly
set forth.
A "hospital rounder " is pauper in.
valid who goes from hospital to hospital
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